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The Best Comic-Con 2008 T-Shirt

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365 Gear (also on Twitter) highlights a design per day and Sunday's was a particularly hilarious Comic-Con t-shirt:

Support your local Stormtrooper Union

"Today is the last day of Comic-Con 2008 here in San Diego and I’ll be posting more than one find today but to kick it off I found a great Star Wars themed design:

Product Description: 'Support your local Stormtrooper Union. If you like your Deathstar clean and in working order, please, consider supporting the union.'"

Comment below with the best t-shirt you spotted at Comic-Con 2008.

New Star Wars Figures: The Droid Conspiracy

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Hasbro has figured me out. I used to buy all of the Star Wars action figures. As I spent more and more money, I had a moment of clarity. I realized I don’t need or particularly care about most of these figures. I decided I would only buy the figures I really like, which are generally droids and stormtroopers. There’s usually one droid in every wave of figures. Half of the time, it's just a new version of R2-D2. There’s usually some sort of armored bad guy too, but I don’t buy every variation of trooper: snow troopers, clone officers, shadow troopers, etc.  I do buy every astromech (R2 unit) I can get my hands on.

The Romantic Allure of the VHS Tape

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El Topo

You might have tracked down a VHS copy of Jodorowsky's hard to find film at Comic-Con. (Producciones Panicas)

Back in the '90s one of my favorite things to do at the San Diego Comic-Con was to get my hands on plenty of fantastic genre movies. Right before the rise of DVD and after the death of Laser Discs, the Con was that unique place to get your rare, obscure movie fix. I remember getting El Topo and The Holy Mountain VHS tapes at $25 apiece, a bargain considering the hard-to-find collector's items these legendary Alejandro Jodorowsky finds were. That's when Comic-Con was about even more than comics or about huge studios presentations. Independent distributors were part of the act too with crazy and fun oddities such as The Star Wars Holiday Special or Roger Corman's lost classic The Fantastic 4: The Movie. You can't go wrong with titles like that!

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